Exposing the incoherence and Weakness in the United Kingdom’s Defence and National Defence & Strategy Research Group Security Strategies www.defencesynergia.co.uk Suppose There Was a War and Nobody Came? The British public support the Armed Forces. Yet the polls show that the public does not really know what the Armed Forces do, what they Continue reading
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DefenceSynergia Input for the House of Commons Defence Select Committee Planning Assumptions, Funding and Capability in a Post Covid-19 World
DefenceSynergia (DS) is concerned about the potential economic effect of Covid-19 on United Kingdom (UK) Defence funding which has the most immediate impact on the Readiness, Responsiveness, Resilience, Regeneration and Capacity (R4C) of our Armed Forces. DS feels it wholly appropriate to provide this post-COVID-19 brief ahead of any proposed parliamentary inquiries.
Military Experience and Covid-19
Military Experience and Covid-19 DefenceSynergia (DS) has been consistent in its message to Government that for Her Majesty’s Armed Forces to be cohesive and fit for purpose five principal areas must be defined and funded: Readiness, Responsiveness, Resilience, Regeneration and Capacity (R4C). Failure to do so risks incoherence and reduced military effectiveness that would Continue reading
United Kingdom Defence Logistics Lessons in a Post Covid–19 World
The writer of this opinion piece is a founding member of DefenceSynergia (DS). However, the views expressed are the author’s own and not those of DS. For the older ‘loggies’ among us there are a number of terms that now seem to have drifted into obscurity – ‘earmarks’, ‘war reserves’, ‘meantime between replacement or failure’, Continue reading
No Strategy, No Public Discourse – Royal Navy Escorts 2021
DefenceSynergia (DS) is most grateful to Christopher Samuel, a former Royal Navy officer and founder member of DS, for providing the following short commentary on the state of the United Kingdom’s (UK) maritime defences. The issues covered become more pertinent in view of Her Majesty’s Government decision to launch a new review of UK security Continue reading
POLICING A UNITED KINGDOM EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE AND TERRITORIAL SEA, POST BREXIT
The author of the following DefenceSynergia (DS) opinion piece covering the United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) post Brexit is a founder member of DS. In an earlier life, David Graham was an officer in the Royal Navy who was involved in three Cod Wars and served in three RN Island Class OPVs. Subsequently, he Continue reading
Leangkollen 2020: Europe’s China Challenge
DefenceSynergia (DS) is grateful to Prof Dr Julian Lindley-French for permission to publish his recent commentary entitled ‘Leangkollen 2020 Europe’s China Challenge’. The Strategic aspects of the West’s relationship with China have been largely ignored outside the USA mainly for fear of financial disadvantage. As Dr Lindley-French says towards the end of his commentary: ‘Respect’ Continue reading